Entry
  1. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Transitive verb

    to dig up; to dig out; to pick (nose, teeth, etc.); to clean (ears)

    Usually written using kana aloneColloquial

    審判の方をちらりと睨むが、審判は涼しい顔して鼻クソをほじっていやがった。「ちくしょう、八百長かよ・・・」
    I shot a look in the referee's direction, but he was putting on a calm face while picking his nose. "Dammit, the fight's a fixup!?"
  2. to pry into; to examine closely; to dredge up

    Usually written using kana aloneColloquial

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Characters in this word

1
穿
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

put on (to the feet), dig, pierce, drill

Kun
うが.つは.く
On
セン
Strokes
10
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Radical
cave

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Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
2-3-7, 2-3-6SKIP code
3m7.10The Kanji Dictionary
3024.1Four corner code
7a7fUnicode hex code
1-32-92JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3323Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4198New Nelson (John Haig)
2251New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2800Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1941Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2616Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2661Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
25436Morohashi
chuan1Pinyin reading
cheonKorean reading